September 27th, 2011
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ICYMI: Conference Call w/ RNC Chairman Priebus & CO GOP Chairman Call on Obama’s Denver Visit
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus: “Barack Obama’s visit to Denver today is on the heels of a massive West Coast fundraising swing and after the White House officially declared that the season of governing is over and that the campaign season is now in full swing. “Team Obama is trying to fool the voters again trying [...]
RNC Chairman Priebus Responds To Latest Solyndra Development
WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus made the following comments today on a conference call with reporters regarding the latest development in the ongoing Solyndra scandal which revealed that President Obama had been previously warned of the risks associated with the $535 million loan to the now-bankrupt green firm: “Now I know [...]
Governor Bev Perdue of North Carolina Wants to Cancel Elections
Would it be a violation of Godwin’s Law to point out that even the Nazis kept having elections even when we were bombing them? Heck, the United States continued having elections in the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. We didn’t put democracy on hold just because we felt like it. There [...]
Open Thread: Margaret Thatcher on Public Money
from the diaries by Neil As we debate just how much our government ought to be spending–and where that money should come from–I think it’s a good idea to reflect on the words of Margaret Thatcher on the subject of “public money” (of course, when is listening to Maggie a bad idea?): Open thread.
Because Herman Cain Runs For SomeTHING, Not Against SomeONE
“Herman Cain may or may not win the nomination, but right now he is the center of gravity within the Republican field and all the other candidates are, after last week, being pulled into his orbit.” I’ve gotten to know Paul Begala sitting with him in the greenroom at CNN and he has some of [...]
The White House Does Not Like Ford’s Ad. Did It Apply Pressure to Get the Ad Yanked?
UPDATE: Ford is now out saying it was not “coerced” into pulling the ad and that the ad campaign will continue. Wonder whatever gave the Michigan news media a contrary impression? ——————————————- I told you a week ago that the White House and General Motors coordinated on GM’s ad campaign it rolled out before the [...]
Mitt Romney’s Health Care Problem
The big news yesterday on the health care policy front is that the 11th Circuit case against the individual mandate is headed to the Supreme Court before the 2012 election, not after. This means a decision about the constitutionality of the individual mandate is likely to come in mid-2012, after the Republicans have chosen a [...]
Have You People All Taken Gardasil Shots Recently?
I’m being inundated with angry emails that I have not linked to or championed the Zogby poll that OMG shows Herman Cain winning in a landslide!!!!!! OMG!!!!! It is as if millions of Republicans took the Gardasil shot and suddenly developed rapid onset of the mental retardation Michele Bachmann’s been warning about. The reason I [...]
GOP Plans to Cave on Transportation Spending
We’ve seen this show before. Republicans propose grand ideas to cut spending and implement free-market reforms; they speak ebulliently about their new ideas, and …they summarily scuttle them and cave to the Democrats. Earlier this year, Republicans proposed a commendable plan to end the bipartisan pork fest of surface transportation spending. Instead of continuing the [...]
Ten Media Truths for Conservative/Republican Legislators.
This is the result of roughly ten years’ worth of looking on – sometimes horrified; sometimes amused; sometimes bewildered – at our current Media environment. Note that capital, by the way: I’m pretty much describing the Media as a singular and monolithic institution, mostly because on a practical level that’s pretty much how it acts [...]
